Rich Shepard <rshepard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The postmaster is running: > 9959 pts/1 S 0:00 /usr/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/pgsql/data > and the socket is present: > srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2007-02-28 05:20 /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432= The socket file should surely not be owned by root ... there's something pretty weird there. How did you start the postmaster? regards, tom lane